Trends -- Painted Switchplates??

There's often an awkward moment when you finish speaking and open it up to questions. So, it was yesterday when I spoke at a house I had partially staged thanks to a call from a fellow Rainer! (a blog on that to follow - but what a great team, great house, total win for all!)

I was asked how I felt about the trend to paint switchplates the same color as the wall. (that's a trend? eek I wasn't aware of it. Is it?)

No, I said, I like the white... and as I looked around the room we were standing in, she was right, there were about 5 different banks of switches all told. Here's the room, and the most restrained of the "control panels"

Are the switchplates distracting? What about the grills?

My answer was: To me, it adds a crispness and a newness with the white. That there's a lot of them speaks "new construction". It also looks like money's been spent. (I added shyly, worrying my Scottish cheapness was showing.)

Do you all agree? Are you seeing painted out switchplates in your area --- is this (another) trend I've missed?

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